About Boris Fishman

Boris is the author of the novels A Replacement Life (which won the VCU Cabell First Novelist Award and the American Library Association’s Sophie Brody Medal) and Don't Let My Baby Do Rodeo, both New York Times Notable Books of the Year, and Savage Feast, a family memoir told through recipes, all from HarperCollins. Harper will publish his new novel, The Unwanted, in early 2025. See www.borisfishman.com for more info.

As a journalist, Boris has published in The New Yorker, The New York Times Magazine and Book Review, The Washington Post, The Wall Street Journal, The Guardian, The London Review of Books, The Times Literary Supplement (UK), Travel + Leisure (where he is contributing editor), Saveur, New York Magazine, The New Republic, and many other publications. See selected journalism here.

Boris has taught creative writing to undergraduates and graduate students at Princeton University (where Boris attended as an undergraduate), New York University (where he received his MFA in creative writing), and the University of Montana. He has steered undergraduates to publication in national literary magazines, graduates to first place in national writing contests, and countless writers to completed stories and novel/memoir manuscripts. (Click here for testimonials about what it's like to work with Boris.)

Boris has worked on the editorial staffs of W. W. Norton, The New Yorker, and Harper’s Magazine, and has edited numerous nonfiction books and projects, among them the U.S. Senate’s report on Hurricane Katrina, Enron whistleblower Cynthia Cooper’s memoir, and the Rwandan government’s investigation of French complicity in the 1994 genocide.